Dah el Bendin

Dah el Bendin is the night patrol commander of the Polisario Front of the Sahrawi Arab Republic.

Biography
Bendin was a commaner of the Polisario Front, and in 2014 he became the commander of the night patrols that the Polisarios launched against hashish smugglers in the desert of the "Liberated Territories" of the Western Sahara region. El Bendin's convoys drive with ther lights off, as the smugglers would, so as to not let their enemies get the advantage of surprise. In a 16 July 2014 interview with VICE News, he said, "We carry out night patrols in our territory, having in mind that terrorists could emerge from any direction. We have one or two fixed guards who stand up top and mobile patrol cars which proceed once a guard alerts them. There's a strong link between smugglers and terrorists. All of them share the same goal of creating instability in our territory. They attempt to weaken Polisario forces and they target the destruction of people through drugs."